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Bryan College of Health Sciences

School of Nursing

Nursing Care IV

Preceptor Manual

2017-2018

Course Faculty

Dr. Ashley Kennedy, RN, CMSRN

Assistant Professor

Officer Number: #314

402-481-8138

Leslie Cosgriff, MSN, RN

Assistant Professor

Office Number: #314

402-481-8754

If unable to reach course faculty for an urgent matter, please contact JulieSkrabal, BSN clinical coordinator, at 402-481-8850. Or call the College office at 402-481-3801 for assistance.

Bryan College of Health Sciences

School of Nursing

Nursing Care IV

Preceptor Manual

Table of Contents

Source of Policy / Name / Page
School of Nursing (SON) / Preceptor Manual Introduction / 3
College / College Mission, Vision, Purpose, Goals and Values / 4
College / College Philosophy of Diversity and Diversity Statement / 5
College / School of Nursing Philosophy Statement / 6-7
SON / School of Nursing Conceptual Framework / 8-9
SON / School of Nursing Curriculum Objectives / 10
SON / Student Code of Conduct / 11
College / Student Rights and Responsibilities / 12-13
College / Student Clinical Dress Code / 14-15
College / Students use of Handheld Electronic Devices / 16-17
SON / Clinical Practice Policy / 18
SON / Medication Administration Policy / 18
SON / Clinical Evaluation Policy / 19-20
College / Preceptorship Experiences Policy & Procedure (Including NE State Board of Nursing Regulations for the use of preceptors) / 21-24
SON / Preceptor Guidelines / 25
SON / Keys to Being a Successful Preceptor / 26
SON/NCIV / Nursing Care IVPreceptor Record / 27
SON/NCIV / Nursing Care IVPreceptor contract / 28
NCIV / Nursing Care IV Course Outcomes / 29
NCIV / Nursing Care IV Course Topics Overview / 30
NCIV / Nursing Care IV Preceptored Clinical Guidelines / 31-32
NCIV / Nursing Care IVPreceptor Clinical Evaluation / 33-35
NCIV / Nursing Care IV Preceptor Pediatric Medication Administration Guidelines / 36
SON/NCIV / Resolution of Problems/Course Faculty Contacts / 37

Bryan College of Health Sciences

School of Nursing

Preceptor Manual Introduction

Thank you for your willingness to be a preceptor for the Bryan College of Health Sciences School of Nursing students. It is our hope this experience will be mutually beneficial to you, the agency, and the student. We value the expertise you have to offer and the commitment you have made to share your expertise with our students.

As a preceptor, you will be working with the Bryan College of Health Sciences School of Nursing faculty to teach and mentor students. In order to promote consistency between faculty and preceptors, we are including a copy of our mission, vision, goals, values, statement of diversity, philosophy, conceptual framework, program outcomes, and course outcomes.

We encourage you to share the philosophy and goals of your institution with the students, so that their practice will meet your standards.

Bryan College of Health Sciences

Mission

The Mission of Bryan College of Health Sciences is to provide education in the health professions emphasizing clinical and academic excellence through collaboration with Bryan Health System and the healthcare community.

Vision

The Vision of Bryan College of Health Sciences is to provide a College of Health Sciences recognized as a leader in health professions education by qualified applicants, graduates, and employers.

Purpose

The purpose of Bryan College of Health Sciences is to educate healthcare professionals for service to the global community.

Goals

The Goals of Bryan College of Health Sciences are:

To prepare graduates who:

  • Are qualified to practice in entry level, mid-level, and advanced practice roles in diverse healthcare environments;
  • Are critically aware of their individuality;
  • Maintain a clear understanding of professional scope of practice;
  • Value life-long learning as a means of personal and professional growth;
  • Participate as responsible citizens within the community; and
  • Are capable of meeting the healthcare needs of an ever-changing society

Values

  • Integrity - Be honest, trustworthy, accountable and ethical
  • Caring - Be compassionate, empathetic and respectful
  • Equality - Be fair and accepting
  • Learning - Be insightful, knowledgeable and open to change

Bryan College of Health Sciences

Diversity Statement

Bryan College of Health Sciences honors cultural differences and promotes equality of all individuals through creation of a campus climate of inclusion, tolerance, and respect. The College provides students with curricular and co-curricular opportunities to help them to grow personally and professionally and to prepare them to be culturally competent citizens in a diverse and ever-changing society. The College emphasizes the significance of providing faculty and staff with educational and collegial opportunities to maintain an environment which recognizes the importance of cultural competence.

Philosophy of Diversity

Bryan College of Health Sciences recognizes through its mission statements that:

  • The individual is a unique and multidimensional being with inherent worth and dignity who deserves to be treated with consideration, empathy, humaneness, kindness, respect, trust and a non-judgmental attitude.
  • All individuals deserve the same rights, privileges or status as others including acceptance, assertiveness, fairness, self-esteem and tolerance.
  • The individual has the freedom to exercise choice.
  • The education process must enable the graduate to participate as a contributing member of a culturally diverse society.
  • Faculty are responsible as role models, mentors and teachers for providing a caring environment in which students are free to explore and develop.

Bryan College of Health Sciences recognizes that diversity presents itself in many different ways. It is not just the ethnic and sociocultural differences among individuals, but also the physiological, psychological, developmental and spiritual differences. The College strives to provide equality to all individuals through nondiscriminatory policies on admission/ enrollment, religious or cultural observances, services for students with disabilities, financial aid, student rights and responsibilities, student code and harassment.

Bryan College of Health Sciences recognizes that while the community in which it exists is rapidly becoming more culturally diverse, this growth in cultural diversity is not presently realized proportionately within the College faculty or student body. The College recognizes the importance of striving to recruit a more culturally diverse student body and providing the necessary resources to increase the likelihood of success in the College.

Bryan College of Health Sciences recognizes the rich learning opportunities within the community for interaction with individuals and groups of diverse backgrounds. Both curricular and co-curricular opportunities must be systematically provided to students to help them to grow personally and professionally and to prepare them to be culturally sensitive citizens in a diverse and ever-changing society.

Bryan College of Health Sciences

School of Nursing

Bachelor of Science in Nursing Philosophy

The faculty of Bryan College of Health Sciences, School of Nursing, believes that:

Nursing is an art and a science: the embodiment of caring. It consists of a unique, integrated body of knowledge and requires critical thinking, decision making and problem solving skills. Nursing addresses holistic human responses to varied levels of health in a variety of settings, and is concerned with illness prevention, health promotion and health maintenance. Nurses actively collaborate with other healthcare professionals to promote safe holistic care of their clients. They provide care to individuals, families, groups and communities. Nursing requires commitment and responsibility to society and to the profession.

The individual is a unique and multidimensional being with inherent worth and dignity. Individuals interact with the environment in a dynamic process which requires change over time. Individuals have the capacity to care, to learn, and to change. They have the right to determine and participate in activities that affect their health status, and therefore are responsible for their own actions.

Environment is both internal and external. The internal environment is unique to the individual. The external environment is global, geopolitical, cultural and technical. The relationship between the individual and the environment is both dynamic and reciprocal.

Health is a dynamic state influenced by heredity, the environment and the individual's lifestyle. The state of health is reflected within an individual's physical, psychological, spiritual, developmental and sociocultural dimensions. Individuals, families and communities differ in how health is perceived and valued, and have the right to define their own health. The pursuit of health is the right and responsibility of each individual.

Learning is a life-long, interactive process that builds on previous experience and ideally results in change in attitudes, beliefs and/or behaviors. Learning occurs in a variety of environments, and involves the cognitive, affective and psychomotor domains.

Professional nursing education is built on an integrated study of the natural sciences, social sciences and humanities in order to promote critical thinking, caring, respect and concern for individuals, families, communities and societies. This integrated program of nursing science and General Education is designed to develop an appreciation for the arts and sciences. This contributes to an individual's understanding of and participation in society as a whole. The nursing major provides a theoretical base concurrent with practice in a variety of settings, and prepares a nurse generalist. Baccalaureate education provides the foundation for graduate education and advanced practice and expands an individual's perspectives on life, attitudes, values and beliefs.

The faculty are responsible as role models, mentors and teachers for providing a caring environment in which students are free to explore and develop personally, professionally and intellectually. The College provides a full range of nursing activities within the multiple contexts of legal and ethical boundaries, political and economic forces, sociocultural influences, and spiritual and historical factors. This environment will provide quality education which develops critical thinking and nursing competence. A graduate of the College will possess the ability to integrate theories, concepts, and research findings into nursing practice, shaping the future of nursing and meeting the emerging healthcare needs of society.

Bryan College of Health Sciences

School of Nursing

Bachelor of Science in Nursing Conceptual Framework

The conceptual framework of Bryan College of Health Sciences is composed of six major interrelated concepts: caring, nursing, client, health, environment and process. Caring is the unifying concept of the framework and therefore is centrally located within the model.

The six major concepts are further divided into sub concepts used in operationalization of the curriculum.

  • Nursing is an art and science. The sub concepts of roles and professionalism are principle aspects of nursing that provide the basis for autonomous and collaborative nursing action.
  • Caring reflects the nurturant and assistive attributes that are central to nursing. The acquisition of the art of caring is facilitated through the use of caring actions.
  • Client encompasses individual, family and community systems. The student interacts with these entities from a holistic perspective.
  • Health expresses the full range of a client's potentialities. Health is facilitated by interventions based on a client's human responses. Nurses provide care directed at health promotion, illness prevention, health restoration, and health maintenance.
  • Process is the series of actions or operations nurses use as they attend to the needs of clients. These actions or operations include research, leadership/management, learning, communication, critical thinking, and ethics.
  • Environment exists in a reciprocal relationship with clients. It is composed of internal and external factors affecting clients.

MAJOR CONCEPTS

NURSING

Roles
Professionalism /

CLIENT

Holism /

PROCESS

Research
Leadership/Management
Learning
Communication
Critical Thinking
Ethics /

HEALTH

Human Response
Health Promotion
IllnessPrevention
Health Restoration
Health Maintenance /

CARING

Caring Actions /

ENVIRONMENT

External
Internal

Bryan College of Health Sciences

School of Nursing

Bachelor of Science in Nursing Curriculum Objectives

In order to implement the goals of the College, the faculty plan the curriculum so that upon completion of the program of studies the student will:

1. CURRICULUM OBJECTIVE #1 FOR MAJOR CONCEPT -NURSING: Assume the position of professional nurse through enactment of nursing roles, demonstration of professional behavior and practice, and implementation of nursing care congruent with current nursing practice.

2. CURRICULUM OBJECTIVE #2 FOR MAJOR CONCEPT -CLIENT: Provide holistic nursing care that emphasizes interrelatedness of the physiological, spiritual, psychological, sociocultural and developmental dimensions.

3. CURRICULUM OBJECTIVE #3 FOR MAJOR CONCEPT -PROCESS: Integrate the processes of critical thinking, nursing process, nursing research, leadership/management, learning, communication and ethics into the practice of professional nursing.

4. CURRICULUM OBJECTIVE #4 FOR MAJOR CONCEPT -HEALTH: Promote optimal health through analysis of responses to events and nursing interventions.

5. CURRICULUM OBJECTIVE #5 FOR MAJOR CONCEPT -CARING: Operationalize caring through self-development and interaction with individuals, families, communities and healthcare professionals.

6. CURRICULUM OBJECTIVE #6 FOR MAJOR CONCEPT -ENVIRONMENT: Integrate knowledge of the reciprocal relationship of environment, health status and healthcare delivery.

Bryan College of Health Sciences

Student Code of Conduct

In keeping with the mission of Bryan College of Health Sciences the Student Code of Conduct was developed to maintain an environment that fosters student success and promotes professionalism. Each student is subject to federal and state laws, respective county and municipal ordinances, and all policies, rules and regulations of Bryan College of Health Sciences and Bryan Medical Center. The College endeavors to protect the rights of students and expects all students to comply with all laws. In addition, students are expected to maintain the values of the College and comply with the College and Medical Center policies and regulations as outlined in The Student Handbook.

The College, in consultation with students, faculty, and staff, has developed policies for student conduct and College discipline policies. The College and its Board of Trustees have established College standards to support a philosophy of education based on socially responsible freedom. The policies and procedures contained in The Student Handbook are established in order to provide a climate necessary for achieving the goals of learning and personal development.

All violations of College policies and procedures committed on or off College property (both inside and outside the classroom), or at officially sponsored College events/activities (on or off campus) or via the electronic network fall within the scope of the Student Code of Conduct. The College reserves the right to take disciplinary action against students when their off-campus behavior violates College expectations and/or policies or when it adversely impacts the College or surrounding community. The College expects students to conduct themselves in accordance with the law. Student behavior off the premises of the campus that may have violated any local, state, or federal law, or yields a complaint from others alleging law violations or student misconduct, will be reviewed by the College to determine the appropriate course of action by the College. The College reserves the right to refer any situations involving student misconduct to appropriate law enforcement authorities.

The Office of the Dean of Students coordinates all matters relative to reported violation of Student Code of Conduct and behavior. Any reports of unprofessional, unethical, or dishonest behavior will be fully investigated.

Failure to meet College academic requirements are addressed utilizing the Academic Policies in The Student Handbook. Alleged and confirmed student violations related to academic integrity are addressed utilizing the Academic Integrity Violation Procedure.

Any violation of the College Student Handbook, Medical Center policies, or federal, state, or local laws or respective county and municipal ordinances, may result in investigation and subsequent disciplinary action under this Student Code of Conduct.

Bryan College of Health Sciences

Student Rights and Responsibilities

  1. Students are encouraged to develop the capacity for critical judgment and engage in a sustained and independent search for truth.
  2. The freedom to teach and the freedom to learn are inseparable facets of academic freedom: students will exercise their freedom in a responsible manner.
  3. The College has a duty to develop policies and procedures which provide and safeguard the students’ freedom to learn.
  4. Under no circumstances will a student be barred from admission to a particular institution on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, sex, pregnancy status, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin or ancestry, age, gender, disability, citizenship or intending citizenship status, gender identity, veteran status, or any other status protected by law (“protected status”).
  5. Students are free to take reasoned exception to the data or views offered in any course of study and to reserve judgment about matters of opinion, but they are responsible for learning the content of any course of study for which they are enrolled.
  6. Students have protection through orderly procedures against prejudiced or capricious academic evaluation, but they are responsible for maintaining standards of academic performance established for each course in which they are enrolled.
  7. Information about student views, beliefs, political ideation, or sexual orientation which instructors acquire in the course of their work or otherwise will be considered confidential and not released without the knowledge or consent of the student, or used as a basis of evaluation.
  8. The student has the right to have a responsible voice in the determination of his/her curriculum.
  9. The College will have a carefully considered policy as to the information that will be a part of a student’s permanent educational record and as to the conditions of this disclosure.
  10. Students and student organizations are free to examine and discuss all questions of interest to them, and to express opinions.
  11. Students are allowed to invite and to hear any person of their own choosing within the institution’s acceptable realm, thereby taking the responsibility of furthering their education.
  12. The student body has a clearly defined means to participate in the formulation and application of institutional policy affecting academic and student affairs, e.g., through Student Government Association or representation on faculty committees.
  13. The College has an obligation to clarify those standards of behavior that it considers essential to its educational mission, its community life, or its objectives and philosophy.
  14. Disciplinary proceedings will be instituted only for violations of standards of conduct that have been formulated with significant student participation and published in advance through such means as a student handbook or a generally available set of institutional regulations. It is the responsibility of the student to know these regulations. An appeal procedure will be available for every student.
  15. As citizens and members of an academic community, students are subject to the obligations that accrue to them by virtue of this membership and are entitled to the same freedoms of citizenship.
  16. Students have the right to belong or refuse to belong to any organization of their choice.
  17. Students have the right to personal privacy to the extent that the welfare and property of others are respected.
  18. Adequate safety precautions will be provided by the College; for example, adequate street lighting, locks, and other safety measures deemed necessary by the environment.
  19. Dress code will be established with student input in conjunction with the College, so the highest professional standards are maintained, but also taking into consideration points of comfort and practicality for the student.
  20. Grading systems will be carefully reviewed periodically for clarification and better student-faculty understanding.
  21. Students will have a clear mechanism for input into the evaluation of faculty.

Bryan College of Health Sciences